Commerce city employees will get a four-day weekend at the turn of the year, and they’ll get five three-day weekends February through June.
But those extended weekends aren’t a new vacation benefit. They’re the result of six unpaid furlough days proposed to shave up to $100,000 off the city’s expenses during the remainder of the current fiscal year.

There will likely be more furlough days in the next fiscal year, which starts July 1, city manager Clarence Bryant warned.

Bryant said the city tried to schedule the furlough days around either holidays or school holidays; all fall on Fridays or Mondays.